Kärlek och kärnfamilj i folkhemmet – längtan, lust och oro (2022)

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Boken Kärlek och kärnfamilj i folkhemmet – längtan, lust och oro, utkommen år 2022, är skriven av Jonas Frykman och Orvar Löfgren. Detta går att läsa om boken på Gleerups förlags hemsida:

”Nittonhundratalet blev kärnfamiljens århundrade, men hur gick det till? Den här boken handlar om hur familjen – pappa, hemmamamma och (helst tre) barn – inte bara blev normen i svensk vardag från trettiotal till sextiotal utan även ett centralt verktyg i byggandet av folkhem och välfärdssamhälle. I boken får vi ta del av både forskningsrön och författarnas personliga betraktelser över en tid som format mycket av det som vi fortfarande ser spår av i dagens samhälle, ett bagage som ofta göms i det självklara och outtalade.

I trettiotalets Europa spred sig totalitära idéer. Det var en tid fylld av ängslan, men också av förhoppningar och reformiver. När barnafödandet föll drastiskt talade många om landets undergång. Nu måste ett nytt Sverige ta form och myndigheterna göra sig redo att rationalisera medborgarnas liv. Under efterkrigstiden kom fattigdom, trångboddhet och arbetslöshet att ersättas av ett snabbt växande välstånd, radikalt ändrade hemvillkor och en historiskt hög nativitet.

Boken tar avstamp i vardagens slit med att få hem och familj att fungera, i känslor av längtan och besvikelse, i hanteringen av alla nya ting. Det var här hemma folkhemsbyggarnas storstilade reformplaner omsattes i vardagen. Den avslutas i det sextiotal där kärnfamiljens roll börjar ifrågasättas, samboskap och bonusfamiljer blir det nya medan födelsetalen bara stiger.

Jonas Frykman och Orvar Löfgren är professorer emeriti i etnologi vid Lunds universitet. Boken är en uppföljare till Den kultiverade människan, en odyssé genom människors tankevärldar och upplevelser från 1800-talets slut och fram till första världskriget. ”

En recension av boken skriven av Helena Hörnfelt kan också läsas i tidskriften Kulturella perspektiv 2023 vol. 32.

❄️🧊 Invitation: Digital ice breaking event for the coming thematic section “The culture of cooling” in Kulturella Perspektiv 🧊❄️

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Friday 10th March 14:30 (Norwegian/Swedish time) on Zoom

Cooling is more than ephemeral and sensory experiences – it is highly cultural. In the forthcoming thematic section of Kulturella Perspektiv (vol. 32) we suggest that it is possible to talk about cooling cultures, different ways of living with cooling culturally, which can be traced through history, society and in social relations. By bringing attention to the cultural aspects of cooling and freezing, the aim of this thematic collection of articles is to explore the many ways that cooling and freezing is part of how people think about the world, how they go about in their everyday lives, and how relations are established and managed. How does cooling matter and how does it become matter? How is the culture of cooling and refrigeration affected and negotiated in a time of global warming?

Welcome to join us, the authors and guest editors, for a cool digital “ice breaking” event (release party) and hear more about cultural analytical and cultural historical perspectives on ice cubes, the ice trade, collective freezer lockers and freezers full of gold.

Contributors: Eyvind Bagle (Norwegian Maritime Museum), Flora Mary Bartlett (the Nordic Museum), Helene Brembeck (Gothenburg University), Inger Johanne Lyngø (Oslo Metropolitan University) and Matilda Marshall (Umeå University).

We encourage you to bring a glass containing ice cubes and a beverage of your own preference.

For zoom-link/more information, please contact Matilda Marshall, matilda.marshall (a) umu.se 

The articles will be published open-access at: https://publicera.kb.se/kp/index

 

 

Fremtiden er nå – Klimaendringenes tider (2022)

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Framtiden er nå – klimaendringenes tider, utkommen 2022, är skriven av Marit Ruge Bjærke och Kyrre Kverndokk.

Om boken, från förlaget Scandinavian Academic Press hemsida:

”Klimaendringer handler om utslipp og tørke, om smeltende is og voldsomme stormer. Men når utslippene øker, er det mer enn bare klimaet som endres. Det gjør også vår forståelse av tid. Når klimaforskere bruker kunnskap fra geologisk fortid til å modellere fremtidens klima, politikere vedtar utslippsreduksjoner for å trygge våre barn og barnebarns fremtid og klimaaksjonister roper på øyeblikkelig handling, blir det tydelig at det inngår ulike tidsforståelser i hvordan vi snakker om, forholder oss til og forsøker å håndtere klimaendringene.

Fremtiden er nå undersøker noen av klimaendringenes rytmer, tempoer, tidsrammer og tidsskalaer. Boken tar også opp hvordan forestillinger om en klimaendret fremtid endrer forholdet vårt til nåtid og fortid, og hvordan ulike tidsforståelser kan påvirke hvordan vi forholder oss til klimaendringene.”

 

 

 

ARV – Nordic Yearbook of folklore nr 78 – 2022

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The newest issue of ARV – Nordic Yearbook of folklore nr 78 – 2022 can be found at Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademiens website.

CONTENTS:

Egil Asprem and Sebastian Casinge (SWEDEN): The Trickster and the Witch

Randi Hege Skjelmo and Liv Helene Willumsen (NORWAY): ”The Money Chest Layby his Head”

Ellen Alm (NORWAY): The Quantitative Scope of Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian Bohuslen 1587-1658

Egil Bakka (NORWAY): Migrating with Movement Expressions

Anders Gustavsson (SWEDEN): The Consequences of Covid19 Pandemic

The Kink Community in Finland: Affect, Belonging, and Everyday Life (2023)

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Johanna Pohtinen is defending her doctoral dissertation in ethnology at University of Turku, 25 February 2023 klo 12.00 – 16.00 (UTC +2). The title of the dissertation is The Kink Community in Finland: Affect, Belonging, and Everyday Life and it can be found here.

From the abstract:

This research explores the relationship between kink and everyday life, how affects are related to kink, and how community and belonging are important for kinky individuals. The main research material consists of themed writings, which deal with kinksters’ relationship to the community and their own kinkiness. The materials also include photographs of kink objects and homes, as well as participant observation and interviews on kink events. The materials are understood as dialogical: they are in dialogue with each other and with the researcher. The research methods are based on cultural analysis and draw on theories on affect, community, and everyday life.

Svenska Litteratursällskapets stipendier

Utlysningar

Svenska Litteratursällskapets februariansökan är öppen och här går bland annat att ansöka om medel för vetenskapliga eller populärvetenskapliga arbeten i etnologi, folkloristik eller kulturhistoria om finlandssvenskarna och den svenska kulturen i Finland. Forskningsresultaten kan publiceras på svenska och andra språk. Det finns inga begränsningar beträffande forskarens nationalitet, språk eller hemort.

Sista ansökningsdag: 28 februari 2023.

Läs mer på Svenska Litteratursällskapets hemsida.

Time Warps. Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden (2023)

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Time Warps. Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden is a doctoral dissertation written by Rikard Engblom at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University.

From the abstract:

This thesis explores the ways in which refugees’ experience of time is warped when they come to Sweden. It is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Avesta, a small municipality in rural Sweden. Refugee reception and immigration control in Sweden is characterized by humanitarian ideals that exist in tension with practices and policies aiming to restrict immigration in the name of security and stability. Each chapter of this thesis documents a different combination of these ideals and concerns, examining how they generate particular configurations of waiting. For many refugees in Sweden, everyday life is characterized by waiting—waiting to have their asylum application processed; to receive a residence permit, which grants them the right to work; to be reunited with their families to find a place in Swedish society. This process often takes several years, during which the conditions for receiving residence permit may suddenly change or be made more difficult. The thesis is a contribution to the recent “temporal turn” in migration studies through its focus on waiting as a productive phenomenon in vulnerable circumstances. The increased presence of refugees has given rise to anti-immigrant sentiments in Sweden, but it has also generated welcoming, compassionate responses. By addressing not only how refugees cope with living in a continual state of waiting under precarious conditions, but also how bureacracies, civil societies, and individuals respond to this waiting, the thesis discusses the sociological and ethical implications of refugees’ waiting. Time Warps demonstrates the importance of unpacking combinations of humanitarianism and securitarianism when developing a deepened understanding of refugees experience of waiting in rural Sweden.

Full text can be found in diva-portal.